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That Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t resigned yet is an affront to decency. That not one member of his governing coalition of sycophants hasn’t demanded that he do so – or done so themselves – is scientific proof that invertebrates can form a government. It is a sad group profile in cowardice.
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Over 10 Years Ago, When I Was Israel’s Finance Minister, I Initiated a Joint Operation Between the Treasury and a Secret Mossad Unit Charged With Economic Warfa
— Read on www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-12-10/ty-article-opinion/.premium/the-best-way-israel-can-destroy-hamas-is-by-attacking-their-financial-networks/0000018c-5001-df2f-adac-fe2d39920000 -
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html
For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them.
During his meetings in September with the Qatari officials, according to several people familiar with the secret discussions, the Mossad chief, David Barnea, was asked a question that had not been on the agenda: Did Israel want the payments to continue?
Mr. Netanyahu’s government had recently decided to continue the policy, so Mr. Barnea said yes. The Israeli government still welcomed the money from Doha.
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PARIS – Israeli digital arms producers like NSO were once the stars of national security expos like Milipol Paris, where arms dealers and defense firms of all stripes convene to pitch their wares to representatives of military and police forces from across the world. However, those visiting the Parc des Expositions in northern Paris last month would see nary an Israeli spyware producer between the seemingly endless sea of booths of rifles and drones, barricades and surveillance technologies.
Once the pride and joy of the Israeli military industrial complex, the spearhead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s so-called cyber diplomacy, offensive spyware firms like NSO, Candiru, Insanet or others selling hacking technologies to states were nowhere to be found this year in Europe’s biggest homeland security expo.
Though Israeli offensive cyber firms did not attend, their European competitors did: RCS, producer of the Hermit spyware that is considered a competitor of NSO’s Pegasus; Memento Labs, formerly known as Hacking Team; and IPS-Intelligence, all Italian firms, were present. Alongside these known spyware vendors, previously unreported ones also pitched on the expo floor: Invasys, a Czech firm being revealed here for the first time, offered an “offensive cyber” program Kelpie with the ability to hack iPhones and Android and thus access fully encrypted communications apps. -
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/us/politics/white-house-cair-nihad-awad.html
The White House disavowed an American-Islamic advocacy organization on Thursday after the group’s director declared that he “was happy to see” Palestinians break out of Gaza on Oct. 7, the day of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that killed an estimated 1,200 people and led to the seizure of 240 others as hostages.
A spokesman for President Biden condemned the remarks by Nihad Awad, the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who declared in a speech that Palestinians in Gaza “have the right to self-defense” but that Israel “as an occupying power” does not. Mr. Awad said his comments were being misconstrued.
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www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/us/politics/ukraine-aid-zelensky-congress.html
Legislation to send military aid to Ukraine and Israel was on the brink of collapse, after a briefing devolved into a screaming match one day before a critical test vote in the Senate.
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